New York City health officials are warning of a worrisome increase in the number of leptospirosis cases from contact with rat ...
New York City sanitation workers who collect trash and are often exposed to rats say they have been disparately represented ...
Leptospirosis can cause fever, chills, headache, muscle aches, vomiting, diarrhea, kidney or liver failure and meningitis.
The union representing New York City sanitation workers is demanding action after five garbage collectors got sick with a ...
There were 24 cases of leptospirosis in NYC in 2023, higher than any prior year. The New York Department of Health and Mental ...
A potentially deadly disease found in rat urine is on the rise in New York City, according to health officials. The disease, ...
New York City is struggling with a record-breaking outbreak of a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection spread ...
There is an illness that is spreading in cities in New York State that is not only scary, it is caused by rat pee!
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Of the 24 people sickened in New York City last year from leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine, ...